Inhale to the chief: Pot activists light up outside the White House

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the White House to smoke marijuana this weekend, calling on the government to legalize the drug.

Protesters carried a 51-foot inflatable 'joint' and 'sparked up' Saturday promptly at 4:20p.m., asking President Barack Obama to remove cannabis from the “Schedule 1” list of controlled substances, which also includes harder drugs such as heroin.

One activist said thousands who have been arrested for possession of the drug should also be pardoned.

“What we want here today is Obama, through the stroke of a pen, through executive order to deschedule marijuana, then we want that deschedulization to pardon those arrested for marijuana and we want 50 states to recognize the medical use of marijuana,” he told Ruptly.